Climate Science as Counterculture

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ID16853545
AuthorsDaniel Cunha (0000-0001-5586-6184, Binghamton University, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume18
Issue1
Pagese5928
Publication date2022-05-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLiinc em Revista (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1808-3536 • E-ISSN: 1808-3536
PublisherLiinc em Revista (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18617/liinc.v18i1.5928
OpenAlexW4281761441
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited49

This article investigates climate science as a cultural object. By pursuing the “logic of its aporias”, it is shown that climate science emerged at the confluence of the objective development of the means of production (constituting a “planetary general intellect”) and the countercultural movement of the 60s, which put ecology at its center, but was broader than mere “environmentalism”. This resulted in the emergence of new forms of sensibility and a qualitative transformation of the natural sciences, which recognized the autonomy and complexity of nature. The constitution of climate science is reconstructed by taking the IGBP’s Amsterdam Declaration as historical archive, and by discussing biographical aspects of representative scientists, in mediation with their work and their world-historical context. Yet, the limits of climate science are those of counterculture. Climate science and its institutions preserve aspects of the previous mechanistic science as well as remaining traces of commodity fetishism

Climate change · Climate science · Counterculture · Environmental ethics · Environmentalism · Epistemology · Geography · Political science · Politics · Science studies · Social science · Sociology · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Law · Philosophy · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Ecology

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